Wiki Tagged List

A kind of text block which is halfway between a Wiki List and a Wiki Table. It's handy where you have a list of things which have a key-value structure: people's phone numbers, various aspects of some thing, lists of definitions, questions and answers, lines in a conversation or play, etc. It's done like a little table, only with colons, and with no header line.

For example:

Which is produced from the following Wiki Text:

: DaveLangford : mailto:ansible@cix.co.uk
: AdamRoberts : http://www.adamroberts.com/contact.htm
: JohnClute : jclute@cix.co.uk

• Is it a good idea to allow spambots to harvest the adress of an author? Maybe it's possible to do so from his site, but I think it would be a good idea to have a broken address here instead of a valid one.
• These addresses are all on the public web. Go to google, enter "Dave Langford" or "John Clute", take the first hit, and search for an email address. Having them here doesn't make them any more public - or can you see some reason the addresses wouldn't be harvested from the authors' pages?
• Point taken. Soz
• No problem.

Alternatively, you might use it like this:

Or like this:

For the HTMLically inclined, this is, at present, done with the much-neglected <dl> element; <dl compact>, in fact. The way most browsers render this looks pretty bad if the key is long - the value gets shoved onto a second line. Accordingly, Twic I might change to rendering these using HTML tables, with the headings down the first column. For example:

<table>
<tr><th>Name</th><td>Robby</td></tr>
<tr><th>Type of being</th><td>Robot</td></tr>
</table>

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